{"id":26270,"date":"2026-01-09T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26270"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:52:11","slug":"u-s-diplomats-arrive-in-venezuela-for-initial-assessment-following-maduros-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/u-s-diplomats-arrive-in-venezuela-for-initial-assessment-following-maduros-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Diplomats Arrive In Venezuela For \u2018Initial Assessment\u2019 Following Maduro\u2019s Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of American diplomats arrived in Venezuela on Friday, marking the first time American officials have set foot in Caracas following the capture of dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>Acting U.S. Ambassador to Colombia John McNamara traveled to Caracas alongside security personnel from the Venezuela Affairs Unit, which is also based in Colombia, \u201cto conduct an initial assessment for a potential phased resumption of operations,\u201d CNN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jmhansler\/status\/2009642474659254408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. President Donald Trump said last weekend that the United States would assume control of Venezuela for the foreseeable future after the U.S. military and law enforcement raided Maduro\u2019s compound and took the Venezuelan dictator and his wife back to the United States to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-diplomats-arrive-in-venezuela-for-initial-assessment-following-maduros-capture?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=9&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=U.S.+Diplomats+Arrive+In+Venezuela+For+%E2%80%98Initial+Assessment%E2%80%99+Following+Maduro%E2%80%99s+Capture\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of American diplomats arrived in Venezuela on Friday, marking the first time American officials have set foot in Caracas following the capture of dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Acting U.S. Ambassador to Colombia John McNamara traveled to Caracas alongside security personnel from the Venezuela Affairs Unit, which is also based in Colombia, \u201cto conduct an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/u-s-diplomats-arrive-in-venezuela-for-initial-assessment-following-maduros-capture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Diplomats Arrive In Venezuela For \u2018Initial Assessment\u2019 Following Maduro\u2019s Capture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-horse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6PI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26271,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26270\/revisions\/26271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}